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Shamanism is a traditional religious practice of interacting with the spirit world, usually through a state of altered consciousness, for the purposes of directing spiritual energies toward the physical world, usually for healing, divining, or seeking wisdom. Shamans usually train their whole lives to learn their practice from one or more experienced shamans in their tradition, and pass on their learning in turn. Contemporary interpretations of Indigenous shamanistic traditions are referred to as neoshamanism.
